Mattarella President

MATTARELLA PRESIDENT

On February 3, took office the new President of the Republic. The first Sicilian to Colle, Sergio Mattarella, was born in Palermo in 1941 and his family is originally from Castellammare del Golfo.

Cities with a beautiful sandy beach, a port where fresh fish arrives every morning, a castle overlooking the sea, the tourist town that summer is enriched by events, nearby the beautiful bay of Guidaloca, stony from spectacular sea beds not to be missed for lovers of high water. Also close to the most famous Zingaro Reserve.

Born into a wealthy family by her mother Maria Buccellato and father Bernard, Democrat politician several times minister in the fifties and sixties, he lived his youth in Rome, where he graduated from high school in 1964 and graduated from the Sapienza.
He served in the ranks of the Students 'Movement of the Boys' Youth of Catholic Action, of which he was responsible as a delegate students of Rome and Lazio then from 1961 to 1964, and later joined the Italian Catholic University Federation. then became a university professor.

In 1980 it suffered the loss of his brother Piersanti, assassinated by what our just become President of the Sicilian Region.

For the first time in 1983, elected as a deputy of the Christian Democrats in the district of western Sicily. It 'been a deputy for seven terms until 2006 with the Olive Tree. During these seven legislatures has been part of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs, the Committees on Foreign Affairs and the Committee for Legislation, of which he was also President.